Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome (New Orleans, Louisiana)

USA / Louisiana / Gretna / New Orleans, Louisiana / Loyola Avenue, 330

330 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 581-1600
www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/new-orleans/msydt/hotel...

This building was formerly the famous Downtown Howard Johnson's Hotel where, in January 7, 1973 Mark Essex begin a sniper rampage and was ultimately shot down in a hail of gunfire of the roof after setting fire to the hotel. The building is now a successful Holiday Inn and has a cool mural of a clarinet on the side.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Essex
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Coordinates:   29°57'10"N   90°4'29"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago